Posted on 10/09/2014 9:06:00 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Bavarian Farmers Association (BBV) is calling foul on new rules proposed by the European Union Commission to ban cow dung from hillsides with a gradient more than 15 percent. The goal is to avoid water pollution by stopping nitrates from leaching into ground waters.
“We demand that Germany stops this ban,” said Upper Bavaria BBV president Anton Kreitmair at Wednesday’s protest. “Slurry and dung are not pollutants, but valuable fertilizers.”
The protest had no placards or slogans—just Doris the cow, wearing a plastic sheet tied around her rear end by farmer Johann Huber.
“We have no regular Pampers; the stores don’t sell any big enough,” Huber joked as he set about his task. …
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LOL!!!
The photos are hilarious. I saw it in a British article where the diapers were called Nappies.
There really is no limit on the stupidity of government bureaucrats in anyones government is there?
Yes, they’re called ‘nappies’ there.
Don’t laugh too hard. As I remember, maybe 10 or 15 years there was a construction project (I think it was a power line) through an environmentally sensitive forest area. The EPA prohibited all mechanical assistance and only allowed horses to perform the heavy work. All the horses had to wear diapers.
The Europeans aren’t the only ones to laugh at.
Some like to take kinky to a higher level.
The EU has it written into their law though.
Not yet, Olog, not yet! There's still time to preserve the time-honored gentle down-hill-rolling of cow poo.
The shorter answer is “NO”. If the farmers had any guts, they would collect all of the manure collected in the diapers and dump it in front of the government building where the decision was made.
The decision was probably made in either Brussels or Strasbourg. Bavaria is an autonomous region and constantly flips the bird to the eurocrats in Berlin. Bavarians are the antithesis to the feminized euro wimps so my bet is they just tell them to go pound sand! What are they going to do?
Frankly the farmers need to try and shoot the beurcrat who is responsible for this ruling.
Frankly the farmers need to try and shoot the bureaucrat who is responsible for this ruling.
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